Sunday, July 15, 2007

You Know You’re From New Mexico if…

This is one of those things that makes the rounds of the Internet again and again. I would gladly give credit to the author if anyone knows who it is.You Know You’re From New Mexico if…

1. You can correctly pronounce words like Tesuque, Cerrillos, Acoma, Buena, Ocotillo, Cochiti, Pojoaque,Socorro and Isleta (and you actually know what or where they are!).2. You have been told by at least one out-of-state vendor that they are going to charge you extra for international shipping.3. You expect to pay more if your house is made of adobe. 4. You can order your Big Mac with green chile. 5. You buy salsa by the half-gallon.6. You know what it means when they say it's from Hatch. 7. Your Christmas decorations include "red chiles, a half-ton of sand and 200 paper bags."8. Most restaurants you go to begin with "El" or "Los." 9. You price shop for tortillas. 10. You have an extra freezer just for green chile. 11. You consider Billy the Kid a state hero. (?) 12. You think six tons of crushed rock makes a beautiful front lawn. 13. You think the biggest perk to running for state legislature is that you could speed legally. 14. You pass on the left because that is the fast-lane.15. You think Sonic is "America's Favorite Drive-in." 16. Your swamp cooler got knocked off your roof by a dust devil. 17. You either have been or know someone who has been abducted by aliens. 18. You can actually hear the Taos hum. 19. All your out-of-state friends and relatives ask if they can drink the water when they come to visit. 20. When someone says "Las Vegas" you think of a small New Mexico town in the northeastern part of the state. 21. You iron your jeans to "dress up." 22. You don't see anything wrong with drive-up window liquor sales. 23. Your other vehicle is also a pick-up truck. 24. Two of your cousins are in Santa Fe, one in the legislature, the other in the state penitentiary. 25. You know what it means when a waitress asks you whether you want "red or green." 26. You're relieved when the pavement ends because the dirt road has fewer potholes. 27. You see nothing odd when, in the conversations of the people in line around you at the grocery store, every other word of each sentence alternates between Spanish and English. 28. You've seen the bat flight at Carlsbad Caverns and have a t-shirt that says "Bats need friends, too!" 29. You know you are "special" because you're from the Land of Enchantment! 30. You've had forts out in the desert or forest, which is also your back yard, so to speak. 31. You know what the night sky looks like full of stars and not pollution. 32. You've swam in an arroyo or an acequia..as a child or an ADULT!! LOL! 33. You've cooked an egg on the sidewalk. 34. You know what a horny toad is. 35. You can identify a quail, peacock, coyote, roadrunner, cricket, etc...by the sound they make. 36. You actually stop in the road when quail are crossing to wait for the whole "family" to get across. 37. Your Walmart sells snow sleds in the summer for the White Sands...but you can hardly find them in the winter. 38. You've slept outside either on the trampoline, the back of a truck, or just in the yard with friends. 39. When going to the store; you ask everyone in the vehicle if they’re going to “get down” with you. 40. You love the smell of rain in the desert. 41. You've caught tadpoles every summer as a kid. 42. One of your favorite past times is rock hunting. 43. Your high school biology teacher taught you how to identify all of the desert plants that you could get high off of, and how to do it. 44. You've been to Mexico just to party. 45. You know that Christmas and weddings would not be the same without biscochitos. 46. You know what bartering is, and how to do it in at least two different languages. 47. You could totally win on Survivor, because you've been doing all that hunting, fishing, and hiking survival technique stuff since you were five out in your own back yard. 48. Your city cousins from out of state come and visit you and don't get it when "going to do something" to you means to go hunting, fishing, hiking and theirs is hanging out at the mall. 49. You spent your four years of high school saying you were leaving this hell hole and never coming back; and when you left, you realized that there's no place like New Mexico, and will probably decide to retire back home.

ALL of you from New Mexico or at least those who live there and just LOVE it (except when the wind blows over 40 mph) and can relate to this, share it!!

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Who knew that retirement would be so much fun? I loved working with kids and books and technology as a school librarian, but now I love having time to get together with friends, and to enjoy walking, going to the gym, taking photos, reading, researching, blogging, knitting, and gardening.